Zerstoeren

thisquietarmy x N - Zerstoeren (deconstructed & reconstructed by Hypnodrone Ensemble)

I wanted to create tracks that implied motion, but a subtle motion in otherwise stillness, like the illusion of fluidity in a heat haze. Mostly, I wanted to make an album of unhurried music that was happy taking its time, each track existing in the moment, slowing up and speeding down.

Slow Up, Speed Down

Darren McClure - Filed As Flies

track 5 from Willoweald by Loneward (aka Altus)

https://stereoscenic.com/loneward-willoweald

Willoweald

Loneward - Petal and Leaf

Ligesom Havet Falder Himlen Gennem Dine Øjne

Format: CD, Digital
Pre-order date: 15th September 2023
Release date: 22th September 2023

"This album was conceived as a soundtrack where abstract fragments of dreams search in vain for a form, a definition. The subconscious generates sometimes non-existent places where blurry images and faded colors become scenarios for random stories and fairy tales, inconsistent and redundant fantasy. In my dreams, the constant presence of climatic conditions fluctuates between the calm of the early morning and the heavy rains of the late afternoon at dusk, thus marking in an almost oppressive way, that state of unconsciousness and resignation that push me into enchanting plots suspended in time."

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previews. Paolino Canzoneri - Spazi di vita impersonale | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

from 'ÉCLATS (PIANO WORKS)' - out on 03.11.2023 - GIZEH RECORDS
CD / Digital / Streaming : https://christineott.bandcamp.com/album/eclats-piano-works
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Two years after Time to Die, French composer Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records with her fifth album, Éclats (Piano Works), a collection of twelve pieces for solo piano, twelve impressionistic miniatures, instrumental and cinematic fractals celebrating the beauty of life.
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Éclats (Piano Works) is a kind of mirror image to Chimères (for Ondes Martenot) (2020, Nahal Recordings), which showcased her other favourite instrument, and for which Christine Ott is particularly renowned - as she is through her past collaborations with Yann Tiersen, Tindersticks, and this year with Chilly Gonzales. But here, there's no vintage electronics: the musician unfurls acoustic landscapes in black and white, alone at the piano, behind a Steinway, a Fazioli or her father's old Prestel. The album opens with Pluie d'arbres, a powerful yet delicate allegory of deforestation. This duality runs through the album, whose energy is sometimes melancholy, sometimes hopeful, but always generous and full of empathy.
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Sometimes nourished by revealing improvised gestures and crystallised during live performances, these new pieces by Christine Ott also make the link with various projects by the artist, both on stage and in film. Die Jagd nach dem Glück (The Pursuit of Happiness) is an extract from her original composition for Lotte, mon amour, a film-concert created in 2014 based on 4 short films by Lotte Reiniger, a German director from the first half of the 20th century. Lotte Reiniger was a true pioneer of animated film, and her films are still incredibly modern and human. Originally composed for piano, Martenot ondes and viola, this highly romantic piece is presented here in its simplest orchestration. Vulcano also foreshadows another film-concert work by Christine Ott, to come in 2024, for Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran. Set on a storm-swept island off the coast of Ireland, the film depicts the daily life of a fishing family in the 1930s. In a film-concert with an ambitious, physical and immersive score, the musician pays tribute to the courage of these inhabitants, united by a strong sense of solidarity, in constant battle with the elements.
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Éclats (Piano Works) presents works recorded over a long period of time; a clear homage to Hitchcock, the writing of Vertigo undoubtedly has its origins in the composer's youth. Some pieces, such as Étreintes and Amours étoilés, were recorded during the sessions for Only Silence Remains (2016), and Christine has regularly performed Golden Valley on stage since its creation in 2018 - whether as solo piano or rearranged in groups as part of her parallel projects (Snowdrops, Theodore Wild Ride...). Other compositions, such as Clouds of Dreams, are much more recent. So it's a real gift to finally discover on record the variety and richness of these twelve original compositions, which have long remained in the shadows.
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And to bring these melodic bursts to life, Christine Ott called on the services of visual artist Léa Barbazanges, who creates sculptures and installations using assemblages of plant, mineral and animal materials. The works that adorn the album cover come from her Optiques series; 12 photographs of crystals seen through a lens, like a poetic prism that brings us closer to living things, their textures and ramifications, as obvious as they are complex, and that give a formidable visual echo to the 12 compositions on the album.
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Out November 3rd on CD and digital. Pre-orders are now open.

Pluie d'arbres

Månen Sølv Over Bladene Drysser

A short mix of excerpts taken from « Light Leaks », the longform album available now on SlowTone Collages
https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/light-leaks

https://www.instagram.com/neve_ambient/
https://www.instagram.com/slowtonecollages/

Light Leaks (mix)

as a thank you to all for the support in 2023 <3 

three 'pay whatever' tracks from a new maps and diagrams album [Islands] - 2024

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/islands

thanks for listening xx

Luing

Warmth - Ocaso

vital006
2020 élan vital recordings

Private Mountain's third long-form release СТРАТУМИ (STRATUMI or STRATUMS in Cyrillic) uses the metaphor of geological strata to meditate on the different aspects of reality, their relationships and tectonic confrontations. Political, Economic, Cultural, Mental, Morphogenetic, Libidinal strata are the constituents of what the personal and social realities are. Now is the time to stop taking it for granted, to come out of the philosophical cave and learn personal and social responsibility, solidarity, communication and collaboration especially in these troubling times of capitalism pandemic accelerating beyond our ordinary powers of comprehension. 

After 'Dark political stratum', slightly noisier and experimental release (which development came out as an outtake of this material), on 'СТРАТУМИ' they return to more subtle plateaus, combining field recordings, drone and ambient sound, this time supported by the piano and synth of the drone superstars Carlo Giustini and Robert Farrugia! 
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Private Mountain is audio and visual project of Dimitar Dodovski and Toni Dimitrov releasing their debut album 'Blue Mountain' on UK label Neotantra (curated by Lee Anthony Norris). It is a project about their shared fascination with nature, art, philosophy and many discussions about the past and future of ambient music, that resulted with a beautiful introspective album, a complex blend of field recordings, drone and ambient sound that captivates fans of this genre with its emotional impact and subtle nostalgia (and that entered the bandcamp chart of ambient bestsellers and received many great reviews). The second album 'Dark Political Stratum' (published on Élan Vital Recordings) is a conceptual album that refers to the global geopolitical changes and turbulence at the beginning of the 21 century. Produced in Macedonia, a center of the global geostrategic clashes of the superpowers, it is a sound statement to these global political shifts, observed through the local prism. 

Produced by Dimitar Dodovski. Field recordings and arrangements by Toni Dimitrov. Additional synths and piano by Robert Farrugia, Carlo Giustini. Cover design: Dimitar Dodovski. Photo inlay: Toni Dimitrov.

releases July 20, 2020 
buy the album https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/stratumi

Private Mountain - Glow

limited tape, vinyl and cd releases with a focus  on ambient, drone, experimental noise sounds and darkjazz

thisquietarmy x N - Zerstoeren (deconstructed & reconstructed by Hypnodrone Ensemble)

Midira Records

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